Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions

Introduction, Jean-Christophe Le Coze
Part 1: New Generation
1. Safety as a research topic 
1.1 Studying (fairly) new empirical realities
Standardization and digitalization. Changes in work as imagined and what this means for safety science, Petter G. Almklov and Stian Antonsen
The interaction between Safety Culture and National Culture, Tom Reader
Governance for safety in inter-organizational project networks, Nadezhda Gotcheva, Kirsi Aaltonen and Jaakko Kujala
Coping with Globalization. Robust Regulation and Safety in High-Risk industries, Ole Andreas Engen and Preben Hempel Lindøe
1.2Developing (fairly) new conceptual lenses
On Ignorance and Apocalypse: A Brief Introduction To ‘Epistemic Accidents’, John Downer
Revisiting the issue of power in safety research, Stian Antonsen and Petter Almklov
Sensework, Torgeir Haavik
Drift and the Social Attenuation of Risk, Kenneth Pettersen Gould and Lisbet Fjæran
2. Safety research as a topic
2.1 Critical reflection on the performative side of safety research
Safety and the professions: natural or strange bedfellows?, Justin Waring and Simon Bishop
Visualising Safety, Jean-Christophe Le Coze
The discursive effects of Safety Science, Johan Bergström
2.2 Practical concerns on the relevance of safety research
Investigating accidents: The case for disaster case studies in safety science, Jan Hayes
Towards actionable safety science, T. Reiman and K. Viitanen
Safety Research and Safety Practice: Islands in a Common Sea, Steven T. Shorrock
Part 2: Pioneers
Safety Research: 2020 Visions, Rhona Flin
The gilded age?, Erik Hollnagel
Observing the English Weather – a Personal Journey from Safety I to IV, Nick Pidgeon
A conundrum for safety science, Karlene H Roberts
Some Thoughts on future directions in Safety Research, Paul R. Schulman
Redescriptions of high-risk organizational life, Karl E. Weick
Skin in the Game: When Safety Becomes Personal, Ron Westrum